LITHIUM,MORPHINE,MARIJUANA,WHAT I'M ONNA, WHAT I'M GONNA,HEROIN,AMPHETAMINES, HYDROXY-CLEAN, COCAINE, PROPANE, OCTANE, BUTANE, CRACK, SLACK, GOING TO THE CONVENIENCE STORE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND BACK,GLUE,BEEF STEW,MORNING DEW, FINALLY REALIZING WHEN I'M THROUGH,Satan worship, precious pursed lips, shooting up, going down, that Stagger Lee smile when I'm walking through town, demonspeeding, cutting-bleeding-breathing, slouching toward Bethlehem, looking for us in them, the systematic derangement of every sense, speaking of most of it, finally, in the past tense--just kidding--Writing, making music, becoming the best artist that my gifts will allow; the ocean and and beach, hanging out in the sun, drinking coffee among other things and engaging in conversation with those I hold dear...personally,though reading unrelentingly superior poetry, prose,and philosophy (the last often OVER and OVER--sentences and paragraphs, not books), playing guitar (when its not in the pawn shop) and singing,and participating in the theatre, whether acting or backstage--AND relentlessly, monomaniacally watching anime--enough already--BY THE WAY: DON'T FUCKING DO DRUGS!!
Friedrich Nietzsche, Plato, Aristotle, St Teresa of Avila, Duns Scotus,St Francis of Assisi, St. Thomas Aquinas, Jesus (pre-resurrection), Shakespeare, Frnacois Rabelais,Aphra Behn, Henry Miller, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, George Gordon Lord Byron, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Ernest Dowson, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Gerard Manley Hopkins,W.B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Sherwood Anderson, William Faulkner, Constantin Stanislavsky, Antonin Artaud, Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman June Miller, Anais Nin, Simone de Beauvoir, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Syd Barrett, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Charles Parker,Scott Weiland, Bradley Nowell, Audrey Hepburn--shit, too many to list anywhere near completely--
Dolphy, Booker Little, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Chet Baker, Carmen McRae, ELLA,Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross--fuck, too many... THE REST: Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker, Howlin' Wolf; BOB DYLAN, BEATLES, Pink Floyd, SYd Barrett, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Richie Havens, The Mamas and the Papas, Peter, Paul and Mary, Ravi Shankar, The Byrds, Roger McGuinn, Donovan, Velvet Underground, Loud Reed, The Stooges and Iggy Pop, LED ZEPPELIN, David BowieAl Green, Otis Redding, Parliament Funkadelic, Steely Dan, Kiss, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Bad Company,Kiss, Go-Gos, X, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Joan Jett, Black Flag, Misfits, Siouxsie Sioux, Danzig, Stone Temple Pilots, Scott Weiland, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Meat Puppets, Nirvana, White Zombie, Rob Zombie, SUBLIME, Foo Fighters, Fiona Apple, Liz Phair, Run-DMC, Eric B. and Rakim, L.L. Cool J., Beastie Boys, Tool, The Pillows, Rip Slyme, Yoko Kanno, Julius Papp, Miguel Migs, Zero 7, Paul Oakenfeld, Frenetik, Scott Walker from Atlanta GA--among others
Trainspotting, Drugstore Cowboy, Traffic, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Streetcar Named Desire, The Big Sleep, Touch of Evil, The Maltese Falcon, Breathless (original), Ma Vie en Rose, Apocalypse Now, Godfather I and II, Goodfellas, FREEWAY, Boogie Nights, X-Men trilogy, Being John Malcovich, Ed Wood, Donnie Brasco, Johnny Depp pretty much has a pass with me, Matrix, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Night of the Living Dead, Pride and Prejudice (keira (sp? knightley version), The Professional, Clerks, Gallipoli, Heat, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Ghost in the Shell and Ghost in the Shell: Innocence, Ninja Scroll, Kai Doh Maru, Vampire Hunter D. Bloodlust, The Hustler, Up In Smoke, Tombstone, Cinderella Man, 13, Neon Genesis Evangelion Death and Rebirth, and the End of Evangelion, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, House of Flying Daggers, The Elephant Man, Stalingrad, Das Boot, The Outlaw Jose Wales, High Plains Drifter, Karas, et al.
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, Arrested Development, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Weeds, Law and Order: the whole fucking franchise--but especially CI and Vincent Dinofrio--whose antics at first utterly repulsed me before they became somehow mesmerising, and many anime series: Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell, Gantz, Gankutsuou, etc.--Don't watch much TV--
Tropic of Cancer, Sexus, The Colossus of Maroussi, Tropic of Capricorn, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, Notes From Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Devils, Miss Lonelyhearts and Day of the Locust, On the Road, Dharma Bums, The First Third, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Huckleberry Finn, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Seven Story Mountain, The Ascent to Truth, Bhagavad Gita, Tao Te Ching, Ramayana of Valmiki, Consilience, too many plays to name, and too many poets, but especially Tennessee Williams, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, Dylan Thomas, etc.
My parents,my grandparents, my older brother and sister, who have consistently amazed me all of my life--Friedrich Nietzsche, Henry Miller, Hank Williams Sr., Francois Rabelais, Terry Smith--and among many others, those who have fought to secure their mind and place in this world, whether they succeeded or lost--and for those who were simply willing to join the battle--whatever the hell that means--